Trump wants Supreme Court to overturn Pa. election results

Undeterred by dismissals and monitions from judges, President Donald Trump's campaign continued with its unprecedented efforts to overturn results of v 3. election Sunday, saying it h filed a new petition with Supreme Court.

petition seeks to reverse a trio of Pennsylvania Supreme Court cases having to do with mail-in ballots and asks court to reject voters' will and allow Pennsylvania General Assembly to pick its own slate of electors.

While prospect of highest court in land throwing out results of a democratic election based on unfounded charges of voter fraud is extraordinary unlikely, it wouldn't change outcome. President-elect Joe Biden would still be winner even without Pennsylvania because of his wide margin of victory in Electoral College.

“ petition seeks all appropriate remedies, including vacating appointment of electors committed to Joseph Biden and allowing Pennsylvania General Assembly to select ir replacements," Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said in a statement.

He is asking court to move swiftly so it can rule before Congress meets on Jan. 6 to tally vote of Electoral College, which decisively confirmed Biden's win with 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232. But justices are t scheduled to meet again, even privately, until Jan 8, two days after Congress counts votes.

Pennsylvania last month certified Biden as winner of state's 20 Electoral College votes after three weeks of vote counting and a string of failed legal challenges.

Trump’s campaign and his allies have w filed roughly 50 lawsuits alleging widespre voting fraud. Almost all have been dismissed or dropped because re is evidence to support ir allegations.

Trump has lost before judges of both political parties, including some he appointed. And some of his strongest rebukes have come from conservative Republicans. Supreme Court has also refused to take up two cases — decisions that Trump has scorned.

new case is at least fourth involving Pennsylvania that Trump’s campaign or Republican allies have taken to Supreme Court in a bid to overturn Biden’s victory in state or at least reverse court decisions involving mail-in balloting. Many more cases were filed in state and federal courts. Roughly 10,000 mail-in ballots that arrived after polls closed but before a state court-ordered deline remain in limbo, awaiting highest court’s decision on wher y should be counted.

Trump campaign’s filing Sunday appears to target three decisions of Pennsylvania’s Democratic-majority state Supreme Court.

In vember, state’s highest court upheld a Philelphia judge’s ruling that state law only required election officials to allow partisan observers to be able to see mail-in ballots being processed, t stand close eugh to election workers to see writing on individual envelopes.

It also ruled that more than 8,300 mail-in ballots in Philelphia that h been challenged by Trump campaign because of mir technical errors — such as a voter’s failure to write ir name, dress or date on outer ballot envelope — should be counted. In October, court ruled unanimously that counties are prohibited from rejecting mail-in ballots simply because a voter’s signature does t resemble signature on person’s voter registration form.

Pennsylvania Republican Party has a pending petition on state's mail-in-ballot deline in which party specifically says in its appeal that it recognizes issue will t affect outcome of 2020 election.